Friday, September 26, 2008

The power of a power engineer

It is truly said "People understand the importance of a particular thing only when they are kept away from it." I came across this photo and it had a great impact on me. It shows the power of a power engineer. Imagine the pic without the tiny specs of light.....looks DARK!!! The advances in electronics and associated fields have kind of over shadowed power engineering. It is almost always assumed that electric current exists everywhere and we just have to plug n play!!! This creates problems especially in power deprived countries like India. I hate when there is load shedding ...everyone hates it. But we never respect power when it is being supplied by the utilities. Like all other resources it is also scarce and needs to be utilized judiciously and in a planned manner. I always try to convince people how much (both power and money) they can save by using CFLs, switching off lights and fans when not in use, turning off their computers etc. But it seems of no use, hardly few people follow. And sometimes I become a hypocrite by wasting power.....

This post is not one more in the series of stop pollution and global warming but it is about asking to respect continuous electric supply and remember the poor power engineer who toils hard to provide you the continuous power......

No post for 1 month that is quite abnormal considering that we have 24 hour net in F Hostel. But I was busy for the first half of September with GRE and in latter half was a bit lazy to post. Hopefully I have recovered from the indolence and would continue posting at a faster pace ;)